Research in "materials for energy/sensor technologies"

The study of non-stoichiometric and usually ion- and electron-conducting solids is a long term center of our work. Charge and mass transport under different conditions (in electric fields, in chemical potential gradients, temperature gradients or magnetic fields), the influence of equilibrium and non-equilibrium defects (interfaces, dislocations), solid state reactions and their control are examples for more specific subjects. Materials under investigation are relatively stable ionic compounds, e. g. halides, oxides and chalcogenides, nitrides and oxinitrides of transition metals – from simple binary phases to complex multinary phases or dispersions.